1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ lilytheamazingfaintingpony http://rainbowdash.net/lilytheamazingfaintingpony http://rainbowdash.net/notice/767444 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/796" class="url" title="Cloud Kicker"><span class="fn nickname">critialcloudkicker</span></a></span> My story? Okay, but in order for the story to work, you must realise that at fifteen, I was not as tolerant as any of you guys are. I was a bible-thumping homophobic conservative. For some reason, my family still allowed me to interact with the world at large, so when someone at school invited me to this anti-drug youth camp, I went. I then met lots of people with opinions different from me, including Vegans and (#<span class="tag"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/tag/thehorror" rel="tag">thehorror</a></span>) gays. So...it took me two or three years to really work through what I'd experienced and find a way to fit those experiences with my religion. Hint: I didn't. I'm an extremist at heart, so I needed some sort of abstract principle to guide. The way I saw it, the only abstract that I could be totally sure of was the #<span class="tag"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/tag/ahimsa" rel="tag">Ahimsa</a></span> principle - i.e. try to make as little negative impact on the world as possible. And that's how I became a vegetarian.